Principal Dies Saving Student’s Life
This is so tragic. I had to read it two times to make sure I wasn’t misreading anything. A high school principal has died trying to give the gift of…
NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 22: A school bus heads down a snowy road in Brooklyn on the morning after a major winter storm blanketed much of New York City in 10 to 12 inches of snow on January 22, 2014 in New York City. While the storm caused major traffic and subway delays, New York City area schools were open on Wednesday morning. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
This is so tragic. I had to read it two times to make sure I wasn't misreading anything. A high school principal has died trying to give the gift of life...to a student he never met.
Derrick Nelson, 44, the principal at Westfield High School in New Jersey, had volunteered to donate his bone marrow to a 14-year-old boy in France after his blood turned up as a match for the youth.
However, Nelson (a husband and father of a 6-year-old girl) lapsed into into a coma during the procedure and never woke up.
He passed away on Sunday.
According to Nelson's father, "After the procedure he did, he couldn’t speak and was lying in the bed. His eyes were open, and he realized who we were. But he couldn’t move. He never spoke again. We really don’t know the full story of what happened. We were expecting him to come out of the coma he was in. But he didn’t make it."
One of the great mysteries of life that we all want the answers to one day is, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" In this case...one of the best of us all.
But for the Grace of God go us all...
